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An Act in relation to the execution of slaves and free persons of color. 1852 211 (1852)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0384 and id is 1 raw text is: OF-SOUTH CAROLINA. or Bridge street in the said city, adjoining each other, and measuring each A. 1. 12 one hundred feet in front by one hundred and seventy-two feet in depth, more or less, the easternmost of said lots being known by the number (12) twelve, be, and the same is hereby, vested in Robert Adger, executor of the last will and testament of the said Christina B. S. Gulden, in trust, for the uses of the said will. II. That all the right, title and interest, which the State has in the Elizabeth real and personal estate of Arthur J. Counts, an illegitimate, be vested in Counts. Elizabeth Counts, her heirs, and assigns. Ill. That all the right, title and interest, which the State may have in the real estate of Margaret Elliott, John Mason, and Joseph Mason, de- C. F. Levv ceased, be vested in Charles F. Levy, his heirs, and assigns. In the Senate House, the sixteenth day of December, in the year of or Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and in the seventy-seventh year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. AN ACT iN IELATION TO THm r.xEcuTION Or SLAVES AND FREr PER- No. 4120. SONS or COLoR. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be the duty of magistrates and freeholders, who shall convict any free negro, slave, or other person of color, subject to the jurisdiction ol'such Court, of any capital offence, and sentence such person to capital punishment, to direct the warrant of exceution to the Sherill' of' the judicial district in which the oflne was shorirtwex- committed, whose duty it shall be to execute such sentence at the time andeento the law. place specificd in said warrant, and for which he shall be entitled to one- half the compensation now allowed by law for excenting a vlitc person And in case of default heroin by the Slieriff, he shall be liable to all the punishnents now provided by law, for the punishment of official mis. conduct of district officers, passed on the eighteenth tday of Deceiber, ini the year of our Lord one thousand cight hundred and twenty-nine. In the Senate House, the sixtuenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hulnlred and lifty-two, ud4 il the seventy-seMoth your of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker 1House of Representatives. 211

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